Released Assessment Questions, 2015
Junior Division
Grade 6
Mathematics
Assessment of Reading, Writing and Mathematics
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Answering Multiple-Choice Questions
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Answering Open-Response Questions
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Section 1 Mathematics • Multiple-Choice
1. A triangle will be constructed using the base shown on the grid below.
Which point can be used to complete the triangle so that
its area is 8 units2?
o Point M
o Point P
o Point Q
o Point R
2. A pattern is shown below.
64, 32, 16, 8, 4, ...
Which rule describes how to find the next term in the pattern?
o divide the previous term by 2
o divide the previous term by 4
o subtract 16 from the previous term
o subtract 32 from the previous term
3. Two rectangular prisms are shown below.
How much larger is the volume of Prism M than that of Prism T?
o 5000 cm3
o 7000 cm3
o 12 000 cm3
o 17 000 cm3
4. A pattern is created by rotating a rectangle 90º clockwise about Point X. This rotation is repeated.
Which of the following shows the pattern?
o
5. Which of the quadrilaterals shown below has
• no lines of symmetry and
• two acute angles?
o
6. The graph below displays the amount of money earned at a craft sale over 4 days.
What is the range between the smallest and the largest amount
of money earned over the 4 days?
o $175
o $150
o $75
o $25
7. Mr. Adams buys juice boxes for 384 students. The juice boxes are sold in cases of 24.
If each student receives one juice box, how many cases has Mr. Adams bought?
o 12
o 16
o 360
o 408
Section 1 Mathematics • Open-Response
8. Lucy is making a game. She uses the net of congruent pentagons below to make a 12-sided figure
to roll.
Each pentagon will be labelled A,
B, C or D.
Write A, B or C on pentagons
of the net so that
• the probability of rolling an A is .
• the probability of rolling a B is .
• the probability of rolling a C is .
What is the probability of rolling a D?
Justify your answer.
The probability of rolling a D is _______________________ .
9. Mr. Scott plans a class trip for the 30 students in his class. He must pay the following costs per student:
• admission: $3.80
• bus: $10.40
• snack: $5.55
• supplies: $7.31
Round the costs to the nearest dollar and use them to estimate the total cost for the 30 students.
Show your work.
The estimated total cost for the 30 students is $ ___________ .
10. The container of popcorn pictured below is in the shape of a rectangular prism.
What is the smallest amount of paper needed to make
this container?
Show your work.
The smallest amount of paper needed to make this container is __________________ cm2.
11. Six polygons are shown below.
Write the letter of each of these polygons in the appropriate section of the Venn diagram below.
Section 1 Mathematics • Multiple-Choice
12. Darren starts with a triangle and creates a pattern.
Each term in the pattern is a polygon with
one more side than the term before it.
How many sides will Term 8 have?
o 6
o 8
o 9
o 10
13. How many millilitres are there in 0.56 litres?
o 5.6 mL
o 56 mL
o 560 mL
o 5600 mL
14. A list of numbers is shown below:
43, 50, 58, 49, 57, 50, 44, 43, 54, 45
Which of the following stem and leaf plots represents these numbers?
o
15. Betsy has a bakery. She uses 128.4 g of flour to make 6 muffins.
How much flour does it take to make 72 muffins?
o 21.4 g
o 770.4 g
o 1540.8 g
o 9244.8 g
16. Isaac and Presley each have a jar of coloured cubes. The contents of their jars are shown in the
table below.
They reach into their jars, and each chooses one cube
without looking.
What colour of cube has the same probability of being chosen from Isaac’s jar as from Presley’s jar?
o red
o blue
o green
o purple
17. Tyra enlarges the following shape on the grid below.
What are the coordinates of the two missing points that
Tyra needs to complete the enlarged shape?
o (9, 8), (2, 6)
o (8, 9), (6, 2)
o (8, 9), (2, 6)
o (9, 8), (6, 2)
18. Which of the following numbers has the greatest value?
o 0.4
o 0.25
o 0.089
o 0.304
